Brake-handle.



PATENTE) DEG. 11

S. J. HANLIN.

` BRAKE HANDLE.A APPLmATIoN FILED AUG. 17. wo

eration ol' my improved brake-handle is sollieiently clear to enable those skilled in the ,art to thoroughly nnderst and the same.

l/Vhat l cliiim, and desire to secure by Lettere Patent, is

l. In a brake-handle, the combination Witt; a car having a brake-shaft, el a ratchet, member or base carried by ssi-id oar, e toothed sleeve mounted upon seid brise and lixed to said shaft, a movable spring-pressed eleeve mounted upon said shaft andadapted to engage seid toothed sleeve. :i handle pivoted to said movable Sleeve and adapted to support Said'sleeve in an fieveted position relative to said toothed Lieeve, substantially as described.

2. fin a ineke-handle, the combination with a .brake-shaft and support, of a base carried by said support and surrounding said shaft, a toothed sleeve fixed to said shaft, it s]1 1i1ig-prf1esed sleeve slidably mounted on said shaft and adapted to engage said vsleeve to rotate said slialt in one direction, and. means loldable. parallel With seid shalt, to raise said sleeve, substentially es described.

3. ln a breke-lizindle, the combination witli a brake-shalt of a base surrounding said shaft, a toothed sleeve lined upon said shaft, :i movable sleeve carried by said shaft, a handle pivoted to said movable sleeve and having a lug adapted in one position of the handleto engage said base and .lioldthe movable sleeve disengaged from the l/ixed sleeve,

and means to liold said movable sleeve, in

engagement with lixed sleeve when being rotated7 substantially as described.

4. In a device ol the character described,

the Combination with a vertical shalt, of a f base surrounding said shalt, and having an upwardly-extending collar provided witli a beveled upper edge, a toothed sleeve lixed on the shalt 'Within tlie collar, a toothed sleeve movable on the shaft. above the fixed Sleeve, means acting to normally liold said sleeves in engagement, and a brake-handle pivotallyi connected to the movable sleeve and having lug adapted when the brakediandlef is in one position t o engage with. the beveled upper end of the collar and hold the movable sleeve dieengaged 'from the iixed sleeve.

5. ln a device of the character described, the combination with a brake-shaft, of a base surrounding said shaft and having a project- 'ing collar, e. toothed sleeve fixed on the elial't and inoleeed byntlie collar, a second toothed Sleeve movable on the shaft into end out of engagement with tbe lixed sleeve, spring' means for normally holding said sleevee in engagemei'it, and a bialiefliandle pivoted to the movable sleeve and carrying ineens which in one position of ftlie brake-handle engages with tlie collar of tlie base and holds the toothed sleeves. separated, substantially .as described,

6. ln a device of tlie type described, the combination with a brake-Shaft, ol' a toothed sleeve fixed thereon, a second toothed sleeve niovable on tlie brake-shaft, abepring bearing against laid second-named sleeve and ltendingto normally bold the seme in engagement with the fixed sleeve, a brake -liandle pivoted Ito said rileva-ble sleeve, .and means oomprising ,a stationary element coaoting Wit-li a lug on t'lie brake-handle Wherebygin one po-k sit-ion ol the bral-liafidle the said spring is held under compression and the; movable sleeve disengaged lrom the -lixed sleeve.

ln testimony wnereol l afl'ix my signature in the presence ol two Witnesses.

` STlVVf'iltT J. llANl'ilN.

Witneeses:

C.A kLesTERin/in; Meg; Il. SiioLoviTz. 

